On 05/01/16 22:20, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
> I think having a emeritus role doesn't make sense and think it will be one
> more thing that someone has to keep updated.
There is no requirement to keep it updated; I would expect being listed
to be driven by the ex-owner themselves, who wanted to be a
Hi Majken,
On 05/01/16 21:39, Majken Connor wrote:
> I'm not so sure. This is really a question of what's the purpose of this
> module, and of the module system at all!
The purpose of the module system is to be the core of the governance of
the Mozilla project. (Whether it adequately fulfils that
I think it's reasonable to leave enough flexibility in this system for
current owners, or even previous owners, to reflect defacto owners in
cases like the one Andrew describes. Noone will argue that Graydon,
who wrote the cycle collector, wasn't the module owner at the time. We
just hadn't made th
I think we know that recognition is lacking this was something CBT at one
point was trying to fix but since CBT was disbanded it seems recognition
was dropped also as something to solve.
I think having a emeritus role doesn't make sense and think it will be one
more thing that someone has to keep
I'm not so sure. This is really a question of what's the purpose of this
module, and of the module system at all!
My first question would be why use this as a mode of recognition for people
who weren't in modules? Do other recognition tools not exist? Are they
lacking? Which method should be impro
On 31/12/15 18:51, Andrew McCreight wrote:
> I suppose technically a module owner can name anybody an emeritus peer by
> synthesizing it out of existing module owner operations (name person as
> peer, remove them as peer, add them as emeritus peer), so maybe that's
> sufficient for giving people in
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We have now implemented the idea of Owners Emeritus and Peers Emeritus
> for Mozilla modules. ("Emeritus" is a Latin word which is used in
> English to indicate people who no longer do a job, but are marked as
> having don
Hi everyone,
We have now implemented the idea of Owners Emeritus and Peers Emeritus
for Mozilla modules. ("Emeritus" is a Latin word which is used in
English to indicate people who no longer do a job, but are marked as
having done the job in the past. It's an honourary position.)
We have implemen
